Abul Kalam Azad (Bangladesh)

Abul Kalam Azad (born 5 March 1947) was a member of the Jamat-e-Islami party of Bangladesh and a televangelist. The host of the Islamic TV show Apnar Jiggasa, he also led Razakars during the Bangladesh Liberation War and was responsible for massacres and rape. He was sentenced to death in 2013.

Biography
Abul Kalam Azad was born on 5 March 1947 in the Barakhardia village of the Faridpur District of East Pakistan. After attending a madrasa, he became a student at Rajendra College in Faridpur and at the age of 24 in 1971 he was a leader of the student wing of the Jamat-e-Islami party. He actively aided the Pakistani Army in criminal acts against Bangladeshi independence rebels during the Bangladesh Liberation War even before the formation of the paramilitary Razakars. He killed pro-liberation Bangalees and the Hindu communities of the country, and in the 1980s he became a major speaker at a mosque. He also hosted the television show Apnar Jiggasa, where he answered questions of Islam and its interpretations. In 2012 he went into hiding when he found out that the government was going to hold a war crimes trial against Razakars, and he was sentenced to death in absentia.